Sugar Confectionery

Sugar confectionery saw little current value growth during the review period as a whole, as the war on sugar increased its momentum. However, sales growth was further challenged by the COVID-19 pandemic, during which consumers’ snack purchasing…

Over the review period, sugar confectionery has been in decline due to the increasing awareness of the effects of sugar consumption on consumer health. In 2020, the pandemic outbreak deteriorated the category’s performance due to a reduction in…

While Russian consumers had been switching to chocolate confectionery as an indulgence or treat as the economy improved earlier in the review period, sugar confectionery regained some lost ground in 2020 due to the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic.…

2021 is in many ways a continuation of the previous year, with a third wave of infections leading to another lockdown in March 2021. Remote work, school closures and restrictions on activities outside of the home continue to shape demand for sugar…

Moving into 2021, health concerns are continuing to impact sales of sugar confectionery as consumers are becoming more concerned about their sugar intake. Sugar confectionery suffers from a poor image and negative perception due to its high sugar…

Sugar confectionery was negatively impacted in 2020, with a volume decline of 4% for 2021 and a value decline of 3%. As many sugar confectionery products are impulse purchases, these negative results were the offset of home seclusion, the closure of…

Having declined by more than one fifth during 2020, as lockdown restrictions led to a decline in impulse purchasing (as many consumers shopped less frequently) and on-the-go consumption, retail current value sales of sugar confectionery will rebound…

Despite some stockpiling immediately following the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, sugar confectionery has only recorded sluggish growth over the last few years and this trend is expected to continue in 2021 with an even lower growth rate…

During the uncertainty created by the pandemic, consumers have been gravitating towards names and products they trust. For example, in 2021 Perfetti Van Melle, which owns major brands Center Fresh, Alpenliebe, and Mentos, is set to regain the share…

Unlike the larger snack categories of chocolate confectionery and savoury snacks which benefited from an indulgence aspect, sugar confectionery was unable to capitalise on the home seclusion trend of 2020 as a result of the pandemic-induced lockdown,…

Sugar confectionery registered a remarkably stable performance during 2021 as the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic was not enough to put strong limits on the category’s sales potential. One factor to take into consideration is that the low unit price…

Sugar confectionery is set to see only a slow retail volume decline in 2021, despite the expectation of a notable current value decline after a year of growth in 2020. The abolition of the sugar tax in 2021 is set to limit the decline in volume sales…

Many traditional grocery retailers operated shorter hours during the lockdown in 2020, while many children were restricted from going outdoors and schools and recreational areas were closed. This had a negative impact on products with a focus on…

With the onset of the pandemic, everyday life changed considerably for almost all consumers in Germany, which has naturally influenced how they shop. Sugar confectionery has been particularly influenced by the fact that people are less mobile,…

Pre-COVID-19, health-orientated trends were already strong in Poland, as consumers were already checking nutritional values of products (eg protein, carbohydrates and fat content). This behaviour has only strengthened in 2021, as customers have been…

Retail volume sales of sugar confectionery declined for the first time in 11 years during 2020, as the pandemic led to the introduction of restrictions on movement that weighed on impulse purchasing and on-the-go consumption. Moreover, the economic…

Sugar confectionery was negatively affected by Coronavirus (COVID-19) in 2020, with retail volume and current value sales seeing significantly slower growth than in 2019. Meanwhile, on-trade volume sales declined steeply due to the closure and…

Both local and foreign players have been focusing on low- and mid-price ranges within sugar confectionery, as Kazakhstanis are often unwilling to spend as much money on these products as they are on chocolate confectionery. This will continue to be…

Sugar confectionery is seeing a rebound in 2021, after all sub-categories bar one (namely medicated confectionery) fell into negative figures in 2020. The declines seen in 2020 were due to limited mobility reducing on-the-go and impulse purchases…

Due to the ongoing COVID-19 restrictions at the start of 2021, sugar confectionery is set to record a low-level growth of 1%, while volume sales will continue to decline. This decline will be driven, in particular, by mints, boiled sweets, toffees,…